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S-CHULTZEv di SCHRODER.

Vegetable Cutter.

Patented Sept. 20, 185:9.

No. 25,530i

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CASPER SCHULTZE AND J. F. SCHRODER, OF' COVINGTON, KENTUCKY.

STRAW-CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 25,580, dated September 20, 1859.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that we, CASPER SCHULrZE and J. FREDERICK SCHRODER, of thecity of Covington, county of Kenton, and State of Kentucky, haveinvented a new and improved machine for cutting vegetables for culinarypurposes, such as cabbage, apples, potatoes, turnips, &c., also forcutting straw for chop feed, &c.; and we do hereby declare the followingto be an exact and full description of the same, viz:

The nature of our invention consists in providing a revolving wheel witha series of adjustable knives, one end of the knives pointing to theaxle upon which the wheel revolves, and the other end of said knivesradiating to the periphery of the wheel to which they are fastened. Thewheel-its face which carries the knives-revolves close to a chutethrough which the articles are fed to the machine, when it is inoperation; and, not only are the knives made adjustable,-s0 that theycan be made to cut coarse or ne-but, the chute is made adjustablealso-by which means it can be moved as close to, or, as far from theknives as may be desired.

To enable others, skilled in making machines of thisclass, to make anduse our adjustable universal cutter, we will now proceed to describe thesame, and, n doing this, reference is directed to the accompanyingdrawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon-like lettersreferring to like parts-and we desire that they shall also constitute apart of our description.

Figure 1is an elevated, perspective View of the machine. Fig. Q-is theface of the knife wheel-showing the relation of the knives to eachother, where four knives are used. Fig. 3--is a view of the knife wheeland the feeding chuteshowing their relation to each other. Fig. l-is thesame as Fig. 3-with the difference that in Fig. 4 the edge of the knifewheel is shown as also-the shaft upon which the wheel is keyed fast-andthe crank by means of which it is revolved-in its use.

A, A, is a substantial framemade in the style of an oblong box. It maybe made three feet high, as many in length, and, from six to twelveinches in thickness.

B, B, are legs to support the box off of the ground, or floor.

c, c, are brackets, or cleats firmly attached to the side of the box-oneon each side of the hole through which the chute C, C, passes.

e, c, slots, into which the thumb screws G, G, are made fast, and whichallows of the variable movement of the chute C.

D, D, D, D, are steel knives, from one foot to 18 inches long; fastenedinto one face of wheel H.

Wheel H, is from two to three feet in diameter,-and is constructed of anarm for each of the four knives, and these are stationary upon the shaftif desired while those portions of the wheel between the knives are soarranged as to slip upon the shaftlthus enabling the operator to enlargeor contract the knife throat at pleasure.

Having thus described our invention, we wish to disclaim theconstruction of a cutting box with a rotating knife wheel as originalwith us, as we are aware that such are old, but;

What we do claim as original and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A cutting box constructed as before shown and specified, that is--withadjustable compound knife wheel H, in combination with feeding chuteC,-when these several parts are constructed and arranged for operationconjointly as, and for the purposes described.

CASPER SCHULTZE. J. FREDERICK SCHRCDER.

Attest:

JOHN G. SHROGK, E. T. BUssELL.

